WikiLeaks

One interesting conclusion that emerges from The Washington Post's revelation Thursday of the secret "black budget" for intelligence activities is that the United States doesn't have many secrets anymore — not in the age of WikiLeaks and omnipresent whistle-blowers. It's only because of the forbearance of Post editors that all 178 pages of this top-secret "Talent-Keyhole" document were not blasted to the world.

The demonstrated inability of the U.S. government to keep secrets causes obvious problems for the intelligence agencies, which exist to steal other peoples' classified goodies and protect their own. But it's not so clear that this world of leaks...

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